Tis the season
I know it's the Christmas season now because I burnt my fingers today with the hot glue gun making ornaments. It's sort of a tradition at our house, but was extended today to a group of garden club friends while we prepared for our annual Christmas Luncheon.
It is the tradition of our garden club for the officers to host the Christmas get together. This includes decorating the tables and making a small gift for each member. This year's gift is an angel ornament. The two six-foot long tables were covered with feathers, beads, trim, glue, scissors, wire cutters, ribbons, angel "hair". The resulting angels covered the creative spectrum from angelic to wild haired, and culturally included Irish, Chinese, Indian and angels of color.
Our creative fires were stoked with a plate of Christmas cookies.
As this year's president, I will have the privilege of making the centerpieces, but I still have a few days to marinate my thoughts on what they will be.
Instead of exchanging gifts, our club has decided to participate in the Figleaf Project of the Garden Clubs of Georgia. We will each bring packages of handkerchiefs, underwear or socks to send to one of the state hospitals for those patients who do not receive these necessities from their families. We earlier decorated small felt Christmas stockings for these same patients to wear during the holidays. Each stocking includes a dollar for the patient to spend at the hospital commissary.
In this year when we have experienced so many disasters here and throughout the world, these small kindnesses seem not nearly enough.
It is the tradition of our garden club for the officers to host the Christmas get together. This includes decorating the tables and making a small gift for each member. This year's gift is an angel ornament. The two six-foot long tables were covered with feathers, beads, trim, glue, scissors, wire cutters, ribbons, angel "hair". The resulting angels covered the creative spectrum from angelic to wild haired, and culturally included Irish, Chinese, Indian and angels of color.
Our creative fires were stoked with a plate of Christmas cookies.
As this year's president, I will have the privilege of making the centerpieces, but I still have a few days to marinate my thoughts on what they will be.
Instead of exchanging gifts, our club has decided to participate in the Figleaf Project of the Garden Clubs of Georgia. We will each bring packages of handkerchiefs, underwear or socks to send to one of the state hospitals for those patients who do not receive these necessities from their families. We earlier decorated small felt Christmas stockings for these same patients to wear during the holidays. Each stocking includes a dollar for the patient to spend at the hospital commissary.
In this year when we have experienced so many disasters here and throughout the world, these small kindnesses seem not nearly enough.
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